http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/ Welcome to Been there. Your tips on the places you know - that you love, live in or have just visited - are what make this guide. http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/17645 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/17645 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/17632 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/17632 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16552 the Queen Vic. It’s enormous – it claims to have 1,000 stalls and be the largest in the southern hemisphere – with Greek, Italian,
Vietnamese and Yugoslavian flavours of local flogging everything from fresh fish and pets to rugs and furniture.

The food stalls are unforgettable: every variety of olive, glistening slabs of fresh fish
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Dance music stores are pretty crap, though Slap records (10/60 Langridge St, Collingwood) has some nice folks working there. Polyester on Bruswick Street, Fitzroy is also good for indie, as is Greville Records (off Chapel Street in Prahran) though it's more on the rockier side.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/5446 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/4760 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/4760 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/4718 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/4718 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/4690 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/4690 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/4669
Sesame seed and honeycomb ice-cream anyone? Head to the 'clinical' Trampoline for cheap, light and supersmooth gelato, or late lunch at Bimbo’s, where you can get pizza (I went for the vegan pumpkin and pine nut with soy cheese) and a beer for $5 - that's £2 - until 5pm. For dinner, Vegie Bar is a real find - even for the strictest carnivore, or try the Morrocan Soup Kitchen for some of the most amazing food you'll ever taste. There's no menu - not even a specials board, you're just told what's cooking. I ate like a queen for $15. It's on the far end of Brunswick Street, furthest from the city. It's busy, so you'll have time to check out some of the great bars nearby while you wait for a table.

Really, do spend a day here, there's more than enough to do and see. Explore the side-streets (especially Gertrude Street) and you really feel like you're seeing the city. Somehow you know that if you lived here you'd end up spending a lot of time on this strip. Just make sure you arrive hungry!]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/4669 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/4640
Smith Street and Brunswick Street (to the north of the City - tram 86 and
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Originally a honeymooner retreat in the 50s and 60s it was involved with the Sanitarium Health Food company after that. Sanitarium closed their factory and Warburton became to place to go to the craft and antique shops. The number of coffee shops and cafes also increased and today it is a great place for a stroll on a lazy weekend.

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